Exodus 5:12

Exodus chapter 5 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

King James Version · 1611

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

American Standard Version · 1901

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

v.11Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.

v.12This passage

v.13And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Obadiah 1:18
And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it.
Isaiah 47:14
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
Nahum 1:10
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
Exodus 15:7
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.
Joel 2:5
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
1 Corinthians 3:12
But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;